A battered Adam Potter pictured recuperating after his January fall. Photo: PA

The climber who survived a 1,000ft fall from a peak in the western Highlands in January has successfully summited Everest.

Adam Potter amazed the Royal Navy helicopter crew who thought they would be retrieving a body from the bottom of the 300m face on Sgurr Choinnich Mòr in the Grey Corries. When they arrived, he was standing reading his map.

He vowed at the time his mishap wouldn’t stop keep him from the mountains and on Wednesday he made it to the top of the world’s highest mountain – with no further incidents.

The 35-year-old, based in Glasgow, was in a team led by David Hamilton of Jagged Globe that reached the summit of Everest.

Memories of his amazing tumble in the Highlands were at the forefront of Adam’s mind as he tackled the final section of the route on the Nepalese side of the mountain.

Writing on the Jagged Globe site, he said: “At the Balcony we turned left and traversed and then headed up a small slope covered with a lot of fresh snow.

“The fixed line stopped, buried in snow and reappeared in about 15m. Given the amount of crumbling snow and the fact a slip would result in falling all the way down the 500m face we had just spent hours climbing up, I was not too happy and my thoughts went back to my big fall in Scotland just before the trip.

“My Sherpa, Chongba, helped me through the section of missing rope to get clipped in on the other side.

“We then headed across a ridge, again covered in crumbing fresh snow. There appeared to be endless drops on either side, but fortunately it was still dark enough that we could not see just how endless the drops were.

“All six of us teetered across without incident, although I suspect everyone’s heart rate rose at some point with the unexpected collapse of snow on slipping foot.”

The climber’s final push for the summit was delayed by a day as high winds held the team down at the South Col, before they abated and his final ascent was made in near-perfect conditions.

“We were able to take gloves off; camera batteries were not frozen in the cold; we could eat, drink, rest, and take time to look around,” Adam added.

“We all did the things and took the photos we had promised friends and family and at times the whole situation became quite emotional. Finally we had reached the summit, but a lot of the effort had not been on the final night but throughout the many weeks of reaching that point.”

The Everest attempt tops an eventful year for the climber, who broke three bones in his back and suffered a cracked rib and concussion in the Grey Corries fall when he was on the munro with his 30-year-old girlfriend Kate Berry and his dog.

Just a few weeks later, he was able to visit his rescuers at HMS Gannet in Ayrshire to thank them. “I know I was standing up, but I was also in extreme shock and very disorientated,” he said. “Who knows what I may have tried to do. The guys did an amazing job.”